The UN envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Saudi Arabia at the start of a regional tour aimed at ending the current crisis in Syria.

The UN envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi arrived in Saudi Arabia at the start of a regional tour aimed at ending the current crisis in Syria.

The envoy "has arrived in Jeddah on the first stop of his second regional tour," his spokesman Ahmed Fawzi said in a statement, adding that Brahimi would have "wide-ranging talks on the prolonged crisis in Syria."

It’s the second regional tour for Brahimi. He Brahimi had first gone to the Middle East in mid-September, visiting Damascus, where he met with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

In an interview with AFP on Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Brahimi would soon return to Damascus to try again to meet with Assad.

Ban suggested Brahimi could go to the Syrian capital next week if his meetings in the region this week were productive.